Yup, it's a great idea! In all of our applications we have a build-dev shell script that builds the application for development purposes. New developers day 1:

Yup, it's a great idea! In all of our applications we have a build-dev shell script that builds the application for development purposes. New developers day 1: vagrant up; vagrant ssh; cd /path/to/app/on/vm; ./build-dev And they're ready to go.